Adaptive Playout Scheduling and Loss Concealment for Voice Communication over IP Networks

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 532-543

  Liang, Yi J ^a,b   Färber, Nikolaus ^a,b   Girod, Bernd ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Jitter absorption; Loss concealment; Playout scheduling; Time scale modification; Voice over IP

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERNET; JITTER; PACKET NETWORKS; SCHEDULING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

JITTER ABSORPTION; LOSS CONCEALMENT; PLAYOUT SCHEDULING; TIME-SCALE MODIFICATION; VOICE OVER IP;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0345690166     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2003.819095     Document Type: Article

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